A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage..., London, 1821-1823.
First Edition of an Important Treatise on Mortgage Coote, Richard Holmes. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage [with] Part the Second. London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth & Son and J. Cooke, 1821 and 1823. 2 parts in 1 volume. viii, 372; viii, 373-712 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets, lettering piece and gilt date to spine, endpapers renewed. Light fading to spine. Light toning to interior, negligible light soiling to a few leaves, light foxing to last fifteen or so leaves, early ownership signature ("George Dudgeon") to head of title page, early underlining and marks to margins on a few leaves. A nice copy. $650. * First edition. One of the most important nineteenth-century treatises on the law of mortgage, it was considered the "standard work" by Holdsworth. It went through nine editions, the last in 1927. Holdsworth, A History of English Law XIII:477. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:78.
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